SC 17: Sex Tapes, Cloud and Security

Published: July 9, 2014, 2:58 p.m.

A recent movie shows what happens when a private video goes "up into the cloud" for everyone to see. 

The movie is called "Sex Tape." A memorable refrain from one of the characters in the movie is "Nobody Understands the Cloud."

securitycurrent's Vic Wheatman speaks with cloud expert JD Sherry of Trend Micro about the controls and protective services organizations should implement to protect their cloud-based applications.

Sherry, Trend Micro's VP of Technology and Solutions, notes that by 2014 some 51 percent of workloads will be processed in the cloud, pointing out that organizations are seeing the benefits of the adoption of these huge cloud-based services.

The also examine the importance of security and privacy and note real-world instances of just what can happen in a cloud ecosystem.